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Jaimey

#60
April 21, 2009, 08:39:20 PM
I just read "The Courter" by Salman Rushdie (from East, West).  I think I'm going to have to read some Rushdie now...I think I'll start with Midnight Children if I can find it...
If curiosity really killed the cat, I'd already be dead. :laugh:

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." GWC
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Mr. Fox

#61
April 26, 2009, 03:10:09 PM
Read "Haroun and the Sea of Stories."  It's a children's book by Rushdie, and quite good, especially if you can get my mother to read it to you in funny voices.

I just read The Chocolate War and reread Perks of Being a Wallflower, and now I've begun The Sound and the Fury (a school assignment).
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Jaimey

#62
April 26, 2009, 03:49:52 PM
Chocolate War and Perks are two of my favorite books!  If you like those you might like Hairstyles of the Damned by John Meno and As Simple As Snow by Gregory Galloway.

I want to read Haroun.  Perhaps when I finish Midnight Children, I can pick it up.  :)
If curiosity really killed the cat, I'd already be dead. :laugh:

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." GWC
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Mr. Fox

#63
April 27, 2009, 10:16:21 AM
I liked The Chocolate War, but i am the cheese is my favorite Cormier book.  And now I looked up the cover of Hairstyles of the Damned, and it is the book I saw a review of years ago and wanted to read but forgot the name of.  I have wondered every time I saw it, and I finally decided to look it up, and I remembered.  Yay!  We probably have a freakishly similar taste in books, although perhaps you wouldn't like Good Old-Fashioned Girl (one of those books of my youth that I love and hated at the same time).
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Natasha

#64
April 27, 2009, 01:49:55 PM
finished 'blackwater'.  just started 'the riddles of epsilon' by christine morton-shaw.
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Jaimey

#65
April 27, 2009, 03:42:44 PM
Quote from: Mr. Fox on April 27, 2009, 10:16:21 AM
I liked The Chocolate War, but i am the cheese is my favorite Cormier book.  And now I looked up the cover of Hairstyles of the Damned, and it is the book I saw a review of years ago and wanted to read but forgot the name of.  I have wondered every time I saw it, and I finally decided to look it up, and I remembered.  Yay!  We probably have a freakishly similar taste in books, although perhaps you wouldn't like Good Old-Fashioned Girl (one of those books of my youth that I love and hated at the same time).

...I've never read "I Am the Cheese"...FOR SHAME!  Don't you hate when you forget a book title!  I'm glad I could help!  It's a really great book too, although it did increase my use of curse words for a bit.  :D  Like my language wasn't bad enough to begin with...heh.  It does sound like we have similar tastes...when I worked at Borders, there was a group of us and we all read the same books...so I should recommend Now Is the Hour as well.  :)  I've never heard of Good Old Fashioned Girl. 
If curiosity really killed the cat, I'd already be dead. :laugh:

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." GWC
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NicholeW.

#66
April 27, 2009, 03:46:02 PM
Enchantress From The Stars, Sylvia Louise Engdahl
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Mr. Fox

#67
April 28, 2009, 03:37:07 PM
Quote from: Jaimey on April 27, 2009, 03:42:44 PM
...I've never read "I Am the Cheese"...FOR SHAME!  Don't you hate when you forget a book title!  I'm glad I could help!  It's a really great book too, although it did increase my use of curse words for a bit.  :D  Like my language wasn't bad enough to begin with...heh.  It does sound like we have similar tastes...when I worked at Borders, there was a group of us and we all read the same books...so I should recommend Now Is the Hour as well.  :)  I've never heard of Good Old Fashioned Girl.

Don't worry, I don't think anything will increase my cursing.  Good Old-Fashioned Girl is a Louisa May Alcott book.  If you're going to read something by Alcott, read Little Women, her best book.  However, I feel like this is an area of reading taste where we do not overlap.  Just intuition.
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Jaimey

#68
April 28, 2009, 04:28:50 PM
I like Alcott. :)
If curiosity really killed the cat, I'd already be dead. :laugh:

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." GWC
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tekla

#69
April 28, 2009, 04:45:00 PM
Little Women rocks, just read it a couple months ago.  Now I'm reading I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
FIGHT APATHY!, or don't...
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Jaimey

#70
April 29, 2009, 06:39:24 AM
I just scanned through The Chocolate War, What Happened to Lani Garver?, and Howl's Moving Castle for a paper I was writing...I want to go back and read them for real again...especially Howl.
If curiosity really killed the cat, I'd already be dead. :laugh:

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." GWC
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Mr. Fox

#71
April 29, 2009, 04:41:46 PM
Jaimey and Kat, my book soulmates.  Little Women is on my to reread list, along with 1984 (I loved it in fifth grade, but now I've forgotten a lot of it).  I swear I must have more to reread, but I can't think of them.
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Jaimey

#72
April 30, 2009, 12:16:08 AM
Quote from: Mr. Fox on April 29, 2009, 04:41:46 PM
Jaimey and Kat, my book soulmates.  Little Women is on my to reread list, along with 1984 (I loved it in fifth grade, but now I've forgotten a lot of it).  I swear I must have more to reread, but I can't think of them.

There's always more to reread...and never enough time to reread them all.  :P  I'd like to go back and reread To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, Wuthering Heights (just to see if it's any good 10 years later), Animal Farm and all those other books I read so long ago...
If curiosity really killed the cat, I'd already be dead. :laugh:

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." GWC
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Annwyn

#73
May 04, 2009, 09:57:01 PM
I'm about to sit down and open up my favorite book and read it for the 3rd time in this lifetime: Guardian of the Balance by Irene Radford.

Then it's the man-kzin wars...

-does happy dance-

THIS SEMESTER IS FINALLY OVER!!!
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Jaimey

#74
May 06, 2009, 05:18:33 AM
I just got Haruki Murakami's The Elephant Vanishes.  It's a collection of short stories.  I'm so excited!
If curiosity really killed the cat, I'd already be dead. :laugh:

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." GWC
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Mr. Fox

#75
June 02, 2009, 12:21:14 PM
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.  My mother recommended it, and I always like what she recommends.
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tekla

#76
June 02, 2009, 12:24:47 PM
The scary thing about 1984 is how far past it we are now.  It almost seems quaint.
FIGHT APATHY!, or don't...
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NicholeW.

#77
June 02, 2009, 01:54:06 PM
Paulo Coelho, "The Witch of Portobello."
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Jay

#78
June 02, 2009, 05:19:03 PM
Indelible - Karen Slaughter

I've read Blindsighted, Kisscut, A Faint Cold Fear by Slaughter as well and they are all amazing! I highly rate her!

Jay


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Natasha

#79
June 03, 2009, 12:08:40 PM
the first wives club by olivia goldsmith.
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